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Top physics: measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp-bar collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 tev using dilepton event (open access)

Top physics: measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp-bar collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 tev using dilepton event

We report a measurement of the t{bar t} production cross section using dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy in p{bar p} collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Using a 197 {+-} 12 pb{sup -1} data sample recorded by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab, we use two complementary techniques to select candidate events. We compare the number of observed events and selected kinematical distributions with the predictions of the standard model and find good agreement. The combined result of the two techniques yields a t{bar t} production cross section of 7.0{sub -2.1}{sup +2.4}(stat){sub -1.1}{sup _1.6}(syst) {+-} 0.4(lum) pb.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Acosta, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meteorological Support at the Savanna River Site (open access)

Meteorological Support at the Savanna River Site

The Department of Energy (DOE) operates many nuclear facilities on large complexes across the United States in support of national defense. The operation of these many and varied facilities and processes require meteorological support for many purposes, including: for routine operations, to respond to severe weather events, such as lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes, to support the emergency response functions in the event of a release of materials to the environment, for engineering baseline and safety documentation, as well as hazards assessments etc. This paper describes a program of meteorological support to the Savannah River Site, a DOE complex located in South Carolina.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Addis, Robert P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Experimental and Model Data for the Evaporation of a Synthetic Topopah Spring Tuff Pore Water, Yucca Mountain, NV (open access)

Comparison of Experimental and Model Data for the Evaporation of a Synthetic Topopah Spring Tuff Pore Water, Yucca Mountain, NV

The evaporation of a range of synthetic pore water solutions representative of the potential high-level-nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, NV is being investigated. The motivation of this work is to understand and predict the range of brine compositions that may contact the waste containers from evaporation of pore waters, because these brines could form corrosive thin films on the containers and impact their long-term integrity. A relatively complex synthetic Topopah Spring Tuff pore water was progressively concentrated by evaporation in a closed vessel, heated to 95 C in a series of sequential experiments. Periodic samples of the evaporating solution were taken to determine the evolving water chemistry. According to chemical divide theory at 25 C and 95 C our starting solution should evolve towards a high pH carbonate brine. Results at 95 C show that this solution evolves towards a complex brine that contains about 99 mol% Na{sup +} for the cations, and 71 mol% Cl{sup -}, 18 mol% {Sigma}CO{sub 2}(aq), 9 mol% SO{sub 4}{sup 2-} for the anions. Initial modeling of the evaporating solution indicates precipitation of aragonite, halite, silica, sulfate and fluoride phases. The experiments have been used to benchmark the use of the EQ3/6 geochemical code in …
Date: October 14, 2003
Creator: Alai, M; Sutton, M & Carroll, S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A structure zone diagram including plasma based deposition and ion etching (open access)

A structure zone diagram including plasma based deposition and ion etching

An extended structure zone diagram is proposed that includes energetic deposition, characterized by a large flux of ions typical for deposition by filtered cathodic arcs and high power impulse magnetron sputtering. The axes are comprised of a generalized homologous temperature, the normalized kinetic energy flux, and the net film thickness, which can be negative due to ion etching. It is stressed that the number of primary physical parameters affecting growth by far exceeds the number of available axes in such a diagram and therefore it can only provide an approximate and simplified illustration of the growth condition?structure relationships.
Date: October 14, 2009
Creator: Anders, Andre
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 180, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 180, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2003
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 168, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 168, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Classroom HVAC: Improving ventilation and saving energy -- field study plan (open access)

Classroom HVAC: Improving ventilation and saving energy -- field study plan

The primary goals of this research effort are to develop, evaluate, and demonstrate a very practical HVAC system for classrooms that consistently provides classrooms (CRs) with the quantity of ventilation in current minimum standards, while saving energy, and reducing HVAC-related noise levels. This research is motivated by the public benefits of energy efficiency, evidence that many CRs are under-ventilated, and public concerns about indoor environmental quality in CRs. This document provides a summary of the detailed plans developed for the field study that will take place in 2005 to evaluate the energy and IAQ performance of a new classroom HVAC technology. The field study will include measurements of HVAC energy use, ventilation rates, and IEQ conditions in 10 classrooms with the new HVAC technology and in six control classrooms with a standard HVAC system. Energy use and many IEQ parameters will be monitored continuously, while other IEQ measurements will be will be performed seasonally. Continuously monitored data will be remotely accessed via a LonWorks network. Instrument calibration plans that vary with the type of instrumentation used are established. Statistical tests will be employed to compare energy use and IEQ conditions with the new and standard HVAC systems. Strengths of this …
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Apte, Michael G.; Faulkner, David; Hodgson, Alfred T. & Sullivan, Douglas P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Supernova Legacy Survey: Measurement of Omega_M, Omega_Lambda,and w from the First Year Data Set (open access)

The Supernova Legacy Survey: Measurement of Omega_M, Omega_Lambda,and w from the First Year Data Set

We present distance measurements to 71 high redshift type Ia supernovae discovered during the first year of the 5-year Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). These events were detected and their multi-color light-curves measured using the MegaPrime/MegaCam instrument at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), by repeatedly imaging four one-square degree fields in four bands. Follow-up spectroscopy was performed at the VLT, Gemini and Keck telescopes to confirm the nature of the supernovae and to measure their redshift. With this data set, we have built a Hubble diagram extending to z = 1, with all distance measurements involving at least two bands. Systematic uncertainties are evaluated making use of the multiband photometry obtained at CFHT. Cosmological fits to this first year SNLS Hubble diagram give the following results: {Omega}{sub M} = 0.263 {+-} 0.042 (stat) {+-} 0.032 (sys) for a flat {Lambda}CDM model; and w = -1.023 {+-} 0.090 (stat) {+-} 0.054 (sys) for a flat cosmology with constant equation of state w when combined with the constraint from the recent Sloan Digital Sky Survey measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Astier, P.; Guy, J.; Regnault, N.; Pain, R.; Aubourg, E.; Balam, D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrated Dynamic Gloabal Modeling of Land Use, Energy and Economic Growth (open access)

Integrated Dynamic Gloabal Modeling of Land Use, Energy and Economic Growth

The overall objective of this collaborative project is to integrate an existing general equilibrium energy-economic growth model with a biogeochemical cycles and biophysical models in order to more fully explore the potential contribution of land use-related activities to future emissions scenarios. Land cover and land use change activities, including deforestation, afforestation, and agriculture management, are important source of not only CO2, but also non-CO2 GHGs. Therefore, contribution of land-use emissions to total emissions of GHGs is important, and consequently their future trends are relevant to the estimation of climate change and its mitigation. This final report covers the full project period of the award, beginning May 2006, which includes a sub-contract to Brown University later transferred to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) when Co-PI Brian O'Neill changed institutional affiliations.
Date: October 14, 2009
Creator: Atul Jain, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL Brian O'Neill, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Auction Basics: Background for Assessing Proposed Treasury Purchases of Mortgage- Backed Securities (open access)

Auction Basics: Background for Assessing Proposed Treasury Purchases of Mortgage- Backed Securities

This report discusses the administrations' proposal to use reverse Dutch auctions to purchase troubled assets -- primarily mortgage-related securities from financial institutions.
Date: October 14, 2008
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Grandview Tribune (Grandview, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 57, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 2005 (open access)

The Grandview Tribune (Grandview, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 57, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Grandview, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Beck-Adams, Candie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Optimizing Bandwidth Limited Problems Using One-SidedCommunication and Overlap (open access)

Optimizing Bandwidth Limited Problems Using One-SidedCommunication and Overlap

Partitioned Global Address Space languages like Unified Parallel C (UPC) are typically valued for their expressiveness, especially for computations with fine-grained random accesses. In this paper we show that the one-sided communication model used in these languages also has a significant performance advantage for bandwidth-limited applications. We demonstrate this benefit through communication microbenchmarks and a case-study that compares UPC and MPI implementations of the NAS Fourier Transform (FT) benchmark. Our optimizations rely on aggressively overlapping communication with computation but spreading communication events throughout the course of the local computation. This alleviates the potential communication bottleneck that occurs when the communication is packed into a single phase (e.g., the large all-to-all in a multidimensional FFT). Even though the new algorithms require more messages for the same total volume of data, the resulting overlap leads to speedups of over 1.75x and 1.9x for the two-sided and one-sided implementations, respectively, when compared to the default NAS Fortran/MPI release. Our best one-sided implementations show an average improvement of 15 percent over our best two-sided implementations. We attribute this difference to the lower software overhead of one-sided communication, which is partly fundamental to the semantic difference between one-sided and two-sided communication. Our UPC results use …
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Bell, Christian; Bonachea, Dan; Nishtala, Rajesh & Yelick, Katherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultra-Clean Fischer-Tropsch Fuels Production and Demonstration Project (open access)

Ultra-Clean Fischer-Tropsch Fuels Production and Demonstration Project

The Report Abstract provides summaries of the past year's activities relating to each of the main project objectives. Some of the objectives will be expanded on in greater detail further down in the report. The following objectives have their own addition sections in the report: Dynamometer Durability Testing, the Denali Bus Fleet Demonstration, Bus Fleet Demonstrations Emissions Analysis, Impact of SFP Fuel on Engine Performance, Emissions Analysis, Feasibility Study of SFPs for Rural Alaska, and Cold Weather Testing of Ultra Clean Fuel.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Bergin, Steve
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reprogramming stem cells is a microenvironmental task (open access)

Reprogramming stem cells is a microenvironmental task

That tumor cells for all practical purposes are unstable and plastic could be expected. However, the astonishing ability of the nuclei from cells of normal adult tissues to be reprogrammed - given the right embryonic context - found its final truth even for mammals in the experiments that allowed engineering Dolly (1). The landmark experiments showed that nuclei originating from cells of frozen mammary tissues were capable of being reprogrammed by the embryonic cytoplasm and its microenvironment to produce a normal sheep. The rest is history. However, whether microenvironments other than those of the embryos can also reprogram adult cells of different tissue origins still containing their cytoplasm is of obvious interest. In this issue of PNAS, the laboratory of Gilbert Smith (2) reports on how the mammary gland microenvironment can reprogram both embryonic and adult stem neuronal cells. The work is a follow-up to their previous report on testis stem cells that were reprogrammed by the mammary microenvironment (3). They demonstrated that cells isolated from the seminiferous tubules of the mature testis, mixed with normal mammary epithelial cells, contributed a sizable number of epithelial progeny to normal mammary outgrowths in transplanted mammary fat pads. However, in those experiments they …
Date: October 14, 2008
Creator: Bissell, Mina J & Inman, Jamie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anomalous momentum dependence of the quasiparticle scattering ratein overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 (open access)

Anomalous momentum dependence of the quasiparticle scattering ratein overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8

The question of the anisotropy of the electron scattering in high temperature superconductors is investigated using high resolution angle-resolved photoemission data from Pb-doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8(Bi2212) with suppressed superstructure. The scattering rate of low energy electrons along two bilayer split pieces of the Fermi surface is measured (via the quasiparticle peak width), and no increase of scattering towards the antinode (Pi,0) region is observed, contradicting the expectation from Q=(Pi, Pi) scattering. The results put a limit on the effects of Q=(Pi, Pi) scattering on the electronic structure of this overdoped superconductor with still very high Tc.
Date: October 14, 2002
Creator: Bogdanov, P. V.; Lanzara, A.; Zhou, X. J.; Yang, W. L.; Eisaki, H.; Hussain, Z. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
District of Columbia: FY2006 Appropriations (open access)

District of Columbia: FY2006 Appropriations

This report is a guide to the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the District of Columbia and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, the Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, the Executive Office of the President, and Independent Agencies. It summarizes the status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related congressional activity, and is updated as events warrant.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Boyd, Eugene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Cynthia Scott at the Muse] captions transcript

[Cynthia Scott at the Muse]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Cynthia Scott at the Muse event in 2005. This video features a jazz performance by artist Cynthia Scott with music accompaniment live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Boyd, Kenneth
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Cynthia Scott at the Muse, Part 2 of 2] captions transcript

[Cynthia Scott at the Muse, Part 2 of 2]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Cynthia Scott at the Muse event in 2005. This video features a jazz performance by artist Cynthia Scott with music accompaniment live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre. This video is Part 2 of 2 of the concert.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Boyd, Kenneth
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mask inspection microscopy with 13.2 nm table-top laser illumination (open access)

Mask inspection microscopy with 13.2 nm table-top laser illumination

We report the demonstration of a reflection microscope that operates at 13.2-nm wavelength with a spatial resolution of 55 {+-} 3 nm. The microscope uses illumination from a table-top EUV laser to acquire aerial images of photolithography masks with a 20 second exposure time. The modulation transfer function of the optical system was characterized.
Date: October 14, 2008
Creator: Brizuela, Fernando; Wang, Yong; Brewer, Courtney A.; Pedaci, Francesco; Chao, Weilun; Anderson, Erik H. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 336, Ed. 1 Monday, October 14, 2002 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 336, Ed. 1 Monday, October 14, 2002

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2002
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2003
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 2005 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 2005

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History